problems with TV card Pinnacle PCTV Studio/Rave

From: Gerrit Holl (Gerrit_at_nl.linux.org)
Date: 03/30/04 

Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 20:17:15 +0000 (UTC)

Hello,

I am trying to get the TV card Pinnacle PCTV Studio/Rave working but
I'm having no luck. At first, I was using kernel 2.4.22-1.2174.nptl
(Fedora Core 1). This resulted in error messages in /var/log/messages:

Mar 28 22:44:42 topjaklont kernel: mt2032: re-init PLLs by LINT
Mar 28 22:44:42 topjaklont kernel: mt2032: re-init PLLs by LINT
Mar 28 22:44:42 topjaklont kernel: MT2032 Fatal Error: PLLs didn't lock.
(repeated a lot of times)

both at initialisation and when running either xawtv or scantv. At
usenet[0] I saw that there existed a kernel bug so I upgraded to a
self-compiled 2.6.4. This one does not give the error messages. But my
screen is still blue. The output in /var/log/messages now is:

Mar 30 21:21:06 topjaklont kernel: Linux video capture interface: v1.00
Mar 30 21:21:06 topjaklont kernel: bttv: driver version 0.9.12 loaded
Mar 30 21:21:06 topjaklont kernel: bttv: using 8 buffers with 2080k (520 pages) each for capture
Mar 30 21:21:06 topjaklont kernel: bttv: Bt8xx card found (0).
Mar 30 21:21:06 topjaklont kernel: bttv0: Bt878 (rev 17) at 0000:00:0e.0, irq: 10, latency: 32, mmio: 0xe7000000
Mar 30 21:21:06 topjaklont kernel: bttv0: detected: Pinnacle PCTV [card=39], PCI subsystem ID is 11bd:0012
Mar 30 21:21:06 topjaklont kernel: bttv0: using: Pinnacle PCTV Studio/Rave [card=39,autodetected]
Mar 30 21:21:06 topjaklont kernel: bttv0: i2c: checking for MSP34xx @ 0x80... found
Mar 30 21:21:06 topjaklont kernel: bttv0: pinnacle/mt: id=2 info="PAL+SECAM / stereo" radio=yes
Mar 30 21:21:06 topjaklont kernel: bttv0: using tuner=33
Mar 30 21:21:06 topjaklont kernel: bttv0: i2c: checking for MSP34xx @ 0x80... found
Mar 30 21:21:06 topjaklont kernel: msp34xx: init: chip=MSP3410G-B11 +nicam +simple +radio
Mar 30 21:21:06 topjaklont kernel: msp3410: daemon started
Mar 30 21:21:06 topjaklont kernel: bttv0: i2c: checking for TDA9875 @ 0xb0... not found
Mar 30 21:21:07 topjaklont kernel: bttv0: i2c: checking for TDA7432 @ 0x8a... not found
Mar 30 21:21:07 topjaklont kernel: tvaudio: TV audio decoder + audio/video mux driver
Mar 30 21:21:07 topjaklont kernel: tvaudio: known chips: tda9840,tda9873h,tda9874h/a,tda9850,tda9855,tea6300,tea6420,tda8425,pic16c54 (PV951),ta8874z
Mar 30 21:21:07 topjaklont kernel: tvaudio: found pic16c54 (PV951) @ 0x96
Mar 30 21:21:07 topjaklont kernel: tuner: chip found at addr 0xc0 i2c-bus bt878 #0 [sw]
Mar 30 21:21:07 topjaklont kernel: tuner: type set to 33 (MT20xx universal) by bt878 #0 [sw]
Mar 30 21:21:07 topjaklont kernel: tuner: microtune: companycode=3cbf part=42 rev=81
Mar 30 21:21:07 topjaklont kernel: tuner: microtune MT2050 found, OK
Mar 30 21:21:07 topjaklont kernel: bttv0: registered device video0
Mar 30 21:21:07 topjaklont kernel: bttv0: registered device vbi0
Mar 30 21:21:07 topjaklont kernel: bttv0: registered device radio0
Mar 30 21:21:07 topjaklont kernel: bttv0: PLL: 28636363 => 35468950 .. ok

...AFAICS that's OK. Scantv gives:

Mar 30 21:32:08 topjaklont kernel: tuner: TV freq (0.00) out of range (44-958)

...but finds no channels.

BTW, which TV norm do I need? I tried them all, but PAL, SECAM and NTSC
simply don't find anything, PAL-M and NTSC-JP result in /dev/vbi not
found, and PAL-N, PAL-Nc and PAL-60 result in a segmentation fault.

I Googled for this problem and found some leads but no solutions. I do
saw some people had got it working, however. Possibly I'm mising
something trivial...? The Linux TV HOWTO is almost four years old so
that doesn't help me either. I really hope someone can help me!

yours,
Gerrit.

[0] http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=VjXk.1JX.3%40gated-at.bofh.it 

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